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The music comes back to life: Justin Bieber rushes forward, Lena Del Rey is actually delayed

New music is still dripping with relative poverty, but the month of March brought with it a relatively significant flow.

Justin Bieber is back soon with a new album aimed at the Ed Sheeran complexes.

Lena Del Rey, after her previous album was a huge critical success, returned with a beautiful album of longing for the simple things

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Avi Goldberger

Sunday, 21 March 2021, 23:45 Updated: Monday, 22 March 2021, 10:47

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Turns halfway.

Justin Bieber (Photo: Universal Music Group PR)

After the deep crisis the music world experienced in 2020 because of the corona, early 2021 did not bring an optimistic spirit.

The fact that half of the countries in the West are still in a kind of closure has led to an almost complete freeze on industry.

The equation is simple.

When there are no shows, when the clubs and entertainment are closed and the shops are not really open, there is no reason to put out music.

As a result, January and February 2021 have become the most dull months the music scene can remember.

Thus, for two months, the first place in the top charts of the United Kingdom and the United States (and indeed of almost every parade in the world) got a song muddy the 17-year old named Olivia Rodrigo, who sings on her driver's license. And apart from the song by Rodrigo, nothing happened.

Division The albums, the most notable releases of these two months, were a collection of hits released over the weekend - largely because of his Super Bowl appearance - and the third release of Doa Lipa's successful 2020 album, "Future Nostalgia". all kinds of bonuses of thing in the past year. passages like "Prisoner" with Miley Cyrus, or execution successful for "Levitating" with DaBaby.

everything seemed dead and even board expenses of the rest of the year does not seem innovative or promising. In fact, the album is notable only Set a date in 2021 was Taylor Swift's new recording for the album "Fearless" from 2008. It is expected to be released in April.

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Transmits longing.

Lena Del Rey (Photo: Universal Music Group PR)

But then came March and the world began to free itself from the yoke of the corona.

Miraculously, the vibe of the music scene also changed and things started to move.

On the 9th of the month Drake released a three-song EP, under the name "Scary Hours 2."

These excerpts, which may sound heavenly like all the excerpts Drake has ever put out, started the change.

The three, the leader of which is called "What's Next", entered the top of the American Billboard charts, catching the top three.

Beyond being an unprecedented achievement - no artist came in directly with three new songs for the Big Three - Drake's return also ended the sole reign of Olivia Rodrigo who finally dropped from first place.

A week after Drake's comeback, the 63rd Grammy ceremony took place that rekindled media attention to the fact that there is such a thing as music.

Already from the nomination stage, the Grammy this year has been particularly controversial, as the most successful album in 2020, Weekend's After Hours, won zero nominations.

The weekend has announced that it is now boycotting the Grammys, which came out of this disregard badly.

is very.

Oddly enough, the weekend was not the only Canadian to announce that it was boycotting the Grammys.

Justin Bieber, who received four nominations, also decided to boycott the ceremony.

The unofficial reason is that his latest album, "Changes" which came out in 2020, was nominated in the pop category.

Bieber saw "Changes" as an R&B album and the submissive setting insulted him.

In response, while texting Bieber uploaded pictures of himself eating salad with his wife and watching a movie on TV.

Really rebellious.

After all this boycott, Bieber still came out with a figurine from the ceremony.

In a bizarre descent of one who denied his poppy side claiming he was making black music, Bieber received, as a sort of statement from the ceremony organizers, the most "white" award imaginable.

Bieber was awarded the prize for "Country Song of the Year" (!) For the song "10,000 Hours" with the duo Dan and Shay.

I wonder if he enjoys the salad.

A week after the ceremony, Bieber returned with his new album, "Justice."

The fact that he's releasing a new album just 13 months after his previous release, "Changes", is confusing.

"Changes" was a bad album.

After two mediocre singles ("Yummy" and "Intentions"), the third single from it has already failed and made it clear that there is not much to look for on the album.

Despite all this, his results were super positive.

This month, IFPI, the International Record Companies Association, announced that "Changes" was the seventh best-selling album in the world in 2020.

An impressive achievement.

Along with his three Grammy nominations, it is understandable that the failure is supposedly misleading.

Bieber also co-created the feeling that the album had failed, when in fact he did not release any more singles from it after its release.

One can assume that the reason for this is the fact that in 2020 there were no performances and in a world without performances, which are the big money, it is almost unnecessary to promote an album.

Bieber understood what was happening and hurried on.

Director Bieber created the duet "Stuck with You" with Ariana Grande, a song with a Motown fragrance poured into the closing anthem in America.

Four months later he released another brand new single - "Holy" with Chance the Rapper, a sweeping pop song with elements of folk and gospel, which was an impressive success, especially on various radio networks around the world.

The successes of "Stuck with You" and "Holy" caused Bieber to change course.

If in "Changes" he tried to position himself as part of the R&B scene, the two quiet and mainstream singles, which gave him huge success among older audiences, made him realize that his future was actually halfway there.

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Bieber, already 27, realized he had to look ahead.

The next single, "Lonely" with Benny Blanco released in October, worked on exactly the same formula.

Bieber stopped creating songs that would become ticking challenges and instead started winking at the mainstream radio.

In Israel, for example, the ballad "Lonely", which lasts less than two and a half minutes, conquered Galgalatz and became a hit in January this year with first place in the station's international parade.

This line also continued in the third single, "Anyone", which was released on January 1 this year.

Bieber seems to have become a kind of Ed Sheeran, embracing the middle ground with harmless songs that from the first hearing you feel you have heard before.

And it works for him.

"Holy", "Lonely" and "Anyone" are all part of the first notable album of what may be considered the post-Corona era.

"Justice" was recorded during the closures, but his messages, according to Bieber, should be relevant to the post-era era as well.

According to a press conference at Zoom that Bieber gave to the media on the occasion of the album's release, "Justice" is an album about injustice.

"One has to get up to protest what is wrong," Bieber said, adding that "it is important to elevate the mood of people during this period."

Bieber opens the album, somewhat cheekily, with a short Martin Luther symphony that says there is injustice everywhere, a symbol swallowed up in the "2 Much" section.

This contrast, between Luther King's strong statement and the love ballad he fits into, creates an unpleasantness.

Bieber declares that he wants to make an important album, an album with a message, but is too carried away by kitsch or megalomania.

The first six songs are about Bieber's love, or Bieber's seemingly aroused mental state, and justice or injustice are not really mentioned in them.

In the seventh section, Bieber returns to Martin Luther King, this time we get a really kind of speech by the leader, who this time gets almost two minutes from the album.

These are things that King delivered in church in 1967, a powerful speech that claims that if you are passive of injustice you are actually dead.

Bieber continues this powerful speech with three pop pieces with bouncy eighties influences, style what we got last year from the weekend and Doa Lipa.

Here too the contrast screams to the sky and it is not clear what Bieber is trying to convey.

On the one hand, sharp messages, on the other, light music.

Very confusing.

After the eighties episode, Bieber moves on to four R&B tracks, not before he finishes the album with "Anyone" and "Lonely".

Bieber has stated that this is going to be an important album, an album with deep messages.

These themes may appear on the album, but in a minor or implied way.

Instead we got mostly a midway song album whose main effect is in making Bieber a mainstream artist into the adult audience.

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The return of the music world last Friday also brought with it Lena Del Rey's new album, "Chemtrails Over the Country Club."

Since breaking into our lives with the album "Born to Die" in 2012, it seems that every two years she makes sure to release a new album, to stay in business.

Her previous one, "Norman Fucking Rockwell!", Was released in late 2019, but that did not stop him from becoming one of the most acclaimed albums of the decade.

In fact, in weighing the album summaries of the year on the Metacritic website, he took first place - among others, he was chosen as the album of the year by Pitchfork, Stereogam, the Guardian and the Washington Post.

After the relative failure of "Lust for Life" from 2017, Del Rey seemed to be on the horse again.

But like the entire music world, Del Rey has suffered the consequences of the corona and most of its global tour scheduled for 2020 has been postponed or canceled.

In an interview she gave before the release of "Chemtrails", she described it as a tribute album to all women wherever they are.

Its cover, somewhat reminiscent of that of an old Smiths collection, is a kind of statement of intent.

She shows a black and white picture of Lena along with ten other women, all dressed extravagantly.

This attire demonstrably contrasts with the simple and ornate furniture of the location in which the photo was taken.

The folding chairs, the table with the cheap tablecloth, the neon signs in the background.

The album opens with the track "White Dress" and for a moment it seems that Del Rey has made a transition from her mesmerizing Hamsin music towards Tori Amosi something.

Her voice sounds broken, and her autobiographical description of the way she did a waitress wearing a white dress to a major figure in the music industry who still wears a white dress, is sincere and sweeping.

After "White Dress," Del Rey returns to her usual musical line-up, with pieces that sound just like things from her previous albums.

The second section, named after the album's name, fails to fulfill the promise hidden by its fascinating name, "as a trail over the country club."

As a trail is a kind of conspiracy theory, which has become common in recent years, about planes hovering above us and scattering chemicals that engineer the weather.

Unfortunately, Del Rey does not deal directly with the chemtrail theory, but more as usual, explaining how small we are in the face of everything that is happening in the world.

This personal smallness is what accompanies the whole album.

Americana stories are simple about ordinary people.

One song tells of a devout Christian from Tulsa and another song about her affair with a Yosemite guy.

Del Rey's descriptions are beautiful and the references to American culture are woven throughout the album.

For example in the duet "Breaking Up Slowly" with country singer Nicki Lane, she says she does not want to finish like Tammy Wyant.

The beautiful ballad "Wild At Heart" implies that it is a kind of tribute to the classic film of the same name by David Lynch, and all that is missing is that Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" will burst at the end.

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The contexts and name-dropping culminate in "Dance Till We Die", which appears before the closing section.

Del Rey tells how she dances to John Buzz and the Rolling Stones and how she renews Johnny Mitchell.

Renew Johnny Mitchell?

Yes Yes.

It comes in the final segment, with the remake of "For Free" from Mitchell's 1970 classic album, "Ladies of the Canyon."

This song, "Free" is Mitchell's version of Del Rey's White Dress.

or vice versa.

Del Rey remembered singing how she used to be a waitress and today she's a big shot, and Mitchell describes how rich she is today and remembers how she used to play free songs before she became famous.

These memories of the beginning, along with the endless trip to America, convey a kind of longing.

A longing for America of yesteryear, but not necessarily for a time of long ago.

Staying in everyone's house reminded everyone how much they miss the ordinary, everyday things.

For dancing, for coffee, for a walk, for singing.

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